Bats possess a unique, preactivated innate immune defense that stops viruses from fully replicating, even after cell entry.

MANILA, Philippines — The viruses carried by mosquitoes may be influenced by how people reshape the landscape around them, ...

Scientists investigating how influenza viruses replicate within cells "accidentally" discovered that different flu viruses ...

Mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, which are known to transmit diseases like dengue, Zika, and chikungunya, may carry more than just viruses that affect humans. They also host ...

A team at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont has stumbled onto a finding that upends a long-standing ...

Ancient Neanderthal DNA passed down for 40,000 years is now affecting how humans fight off modern viruses, making some ...

SCIENTISTS have created a vaccine for coronaviruses we do not even know about yet with the help of artificial intelligence ...

The types of Ebola and hantavirus worrying officials are very different from the species identified decades ago, raising new ...

T cells are some of the immune system's most important warriors. They can stop tumor growth and even fight off severe ...

Changing vaccine recommendations could be partly to blame.

Suddenly they appear and -- like the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus -- can trigger major epidemics: Viruses that nobody had on their radar. They are not really new, but they have changed genetically. In ...